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foreign rights
catalogue
2021
Welcome to our Foreign Rights Department.
Edition Nautilus is an independent publishing house founded in 1974 and located in Hamburg.
We publish international fiction and political non-fiction as well as biographies and art books.
In this list you will find a range of titles from the current program as well as selected titles from
our backlist. If you are interested in any of these, we will be happy to send you a copy.
At www.edition-nautilus.de you can find updated information on each book and author. If you
have any requests or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards
Katharina Picandet
Editorial and Rights Manager Edition Nautilus GmbH
lektorat@edition-nautilus.de Schützenstr. 49 a
Phone: 0049-40-721 35 36 22761 Hamburg
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Recent deals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Upcoming and new fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Flavio Steimann Krumholz
Lena Müller Restlöcher (Open Pits)
Upcoming and new non-fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Georgiana Banita Phantombilder. Die Polizei und der gefährliche Fremde
(The Police And The Suspicious Stranger)
Amed Sherwan / Katrine Hoop Kafir. Allah sei Dank bin ich Atheist
(Kafir. Thank Allah I Am An Atheist)
Jacinta Nandi Die schlechteste Hausfrau der Welt
(The Worst Housewife In The World)
Timo Daum Agiler Kapitalismus. Das Leben als Projekt.
(Agility In Digital Capitalism. Life As A Project)
Backlist fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Backlist non-fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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NEW AND UPCOMING TITLES
Recent deals:
• Stephanie Haerdle, “Spritzen. Geschichte der weiblichen Ejakulation”: English world rights sold
(MIT Press), French world rights sold (Lux Editeur)
• Fahim Amir, “Schwein und Zeit. Tiere, Politik, Revolte”, English world rights sold
(Between the Lines, Canada), Danish rights under option
• Amed Sherwan/Katrine Hoop, “Kafir. Allah sei Dank bin ich Atheist!”: Greek rights sold (Lemvos)
• Anja Röhl, “Die Frau meines Vaters. Erinnerungen an Ulrike Meinhof”: Italian rights sold
(Derive Approdi)
• Selim Özdogan, “Der die Träume hört”: Italian rights sold (Emons Italy)
• Timo Daum, “Die künstliche Intelligenz des Kapitals”: Korean rights sold (East-Asia Publishing Co.)
• Mithu Sanyal, “Vergewaltigung. Aspekte eines Verbrechens”: now published in English (Verso),
Spanish (Reservoir Books), Danish (Tiderne Skifter), Swedish (Ordfront)
Fiction Non-Fiction
Flavio Steimann Georgiana Banita
KRUMHOLZ PHANTOMBILDER. DIE POLIZEI UND DER
(Krumholz) VERDÄCHTIGE FREMDE
Novel (The Police And The Suspicious Stranger)
200 pages, hardcover 192 pages, paperback
To be published in March 2021 To be published in April 2021
A masterful novel about a girl and her A brillant analysis of police violence and
murderer – based on a true story from institutional racism from a Cultural Studies
Switzerland just before the First World viewpoint – and a plea for a constructive
War. debate.
Lena Müller Katrine Hoop / Amed Sherwan
RESTLÖCHER KAFIR. ALLAH SEI DANK BIN ICH ATHEIST
(Open Pits) (Kafir. Thank Allah I Am An Atheist)
Novel Memoir
128 pages, hardcover 240 pages, paperback
To be published in March 2021 Published in October 2020
A novel about love and freedom, The true story of a young Kurd who was
obligations and longing – and about arrested and tortured at fifteen years of age,
what is left over. fled to Germany and still fights for freedom
of belief.
Christine Koschmieder Jacinta Nandi
TRÜMMERFRAUEN. DIE SCHLECHTESTE HAUSFRAU DER WELT.
EIN HEIMATROMAN EIN ERFAHRUNGSBERICHT UND MANIFEST
(Truemmerfrauen. (The Worst Housewife In The World.
A »Homeland Novel«) A Field Report And Manifesto)
304 pages, hardcover 208 pages, paperback
Published in February 2020 Published in September 2020
This novel cuts “As a woman, you can never win with
through German history housework. If you don’t do it, you’re a slut.
like a literary buzz saw. If you do it, you’re a stupid slut who lets
herself be exploited.”
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Flavio Steimann
KRUMHOLZ
(Krumholz)
Novel
200 pages, hardcover
To be published on March 1, 2021
World rights available
New title!
A masterful novel about a girl and her murderer – based on a true story from Switzerland just before
the First World War
In May 1914, a young woman was found murdered in a wood near Krumbach, in Switzerland. The murde-
rer, a homeless man living in the woods, was the last person executed by the guillotine in the canton of
Lucerne.
Inspired by this true case, Flavio Steimann tells the story of Agatha and Zenz:
Her mother died while giving birth to Agatha. Her father, grief-stricken, sets his broken-down farm on fire
some years later and hangs himself, but only after bringing the deaf child to a safe place in the woods.
Agatha‘s world is a silent one, making her an even more careful observer. She grows up in an institution
“for the poor and the lunatic”, surrounded by mean nuns, where she learns embroidery and sewing and
later finds work in a cloth factory. Her first blooming is put to an end abruptly as Agatha is diagnosed with
tuberculosis and sent to the countryside for a cure. Every day she goes into the forest with her embroidery
frame – until one day, she doesn‘t come back.
Zenz also comes from the poorest of backgrounds. Beaten and neglected, he makes a living by lying and
stealing from early age. A better life seems within reach as he is taken to artistic circles Paris by a painter
friend. But finally he has to turn back to Switzerland, where he lives in the woods, homeless. One day, he
sees Agatha there …
In his artfully composed novel, Flavio Steimann intertwines the fate of two people who could not escape
their destiny.
Flavio Steimann, born in 1945, has been a writer since 1966, publishing novels,
short stories, short stories and plays. He was awarded the sponsorship of the City
and Canton of Lucerne, the Swiss Schiller Prize, among others. His novel “Bajass”
(see below) was published in 2014 and was premiered as a theater version in Lucerne
in 2020; it was published in French by Actes Sud.
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FICTION
Lena Müller
RESTLÖCHER
(Open Pits)
Novel
128 pages, hardcover
To be published on March 1, 2021
World rights available
New title!
“You can't hold onto love. Just wait until it comes back.”
Sando loves the Fox. The Fox, among all people. This young man with the unsettling smile who he met at
a demo and who he cannot really get a hold of. But Sando has learned that you can't hold onto love, you
have to wait until it comes back. He has learned that from his mother, who decided twenty years ago to
leave her social background and to pursue her own goals, to not always be there for others: “The possibility
of disappearance is always there. Because we are not just the ones the others want us to be”, she said.
And now his sister Mili calls Sando because their mother has left their father – again. Without leaving a
note. Sando agrees to embark with Mimi on the search, hoping to escape his lovesickness on the way.
Lena Müller‘s first novel is about love and freedom, obligations and longing – and about what is left over.
Lena Müller, born in Berlin in 1982, studied literature and cultural jour-
nalism in Hildesheim and adult education in Paris. She was an associate
editor at the French-language feminist magazine timult and works as a
freelance translator and author. She won several awards for her literary
translations from French.
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Georgiana Banita
PHANTOMBILDER. DIE POLIZEI UND DER
VERDÄCHTIGE FREMDE
(The Police And The Suspicious Stranger)
Approx. 192 pages, paperback
To be published in April 2021
World rights available
New title!
“Phantombilder“ (German for “facial composites” or “identikit sketches”, meaning literally “phantom
images“) is an analysis of police violence and institutional racism from a Cultural Studies viewpoint –
and a plea for a constructive debate
After the assassinations of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in the USA, the need for a durable change in
the mentality of the police hat become obvious – worldwide. For Europe, too, the question arises: How to
explain the extent of police violence and police discrimination against people of color? Where to start the
urgently needed changes for a new police culture?
In her essay, Georgiana Banita shows: The powerful image of the “stranger” has always been a target and
even the ideological foundation of Western police apparatus. The narrative of the suspicious, potentially
dangerous “stranger” was at he origin and still is the backdrop of a general police suspicion against people
with a migration background, black people and people of color.
In the USA, for example, the police introduced lethal firearms only after the abolition of slavery in order to
discipline freed slaves, and Europe also militarized its police force as a result of migration from rural and co-
lonial areas to the industrial centers. Banita‘s analysis on the use of firearms, racial profiling, computer se-
arches and AI-supported crime prognoses, on deportation, border protection and infection protection
shows: The logic and practices of police control architectures cannot be imagined without the idea of a ne-
cessary defense from the (supposed) foreigner.
“Phantombilder” unfolds a cultural history of police suspicion and creates the basis for a constructive debate
that we urgently need.
Georgiana Banita is a Research Associate at the Trimberg Research Academy,
University of Bamberg. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor in Literature
and Media at the University of Bamberg and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the United
States Studies Centre, University of Sydney. In 2009 she obtained a PhD in Ame-
rican Studies, with a thesis on US American and British literature (minors: Com-
parative Literature and Media Studies) at the University of Konstanz, and spent
a year as a Doctoral Fellow at the English Department of Yale University. Her
studies began at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iași, Romania, where
she read English and German Philology for two years before moving to Konstanz
as an exchange student. Banita‘s interests currently cluster around two themes:
(1) the intersections of race, immigration and law enforcement in the United States and Europe, with a
focus on racial profiling, police brutality, and biased pre-crime algorithms; (2) Energy Humanities, especially
the transition from fossil fuels to renewables.
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NON-FICTION
Katrine Hoop / Amed Sherwan
KAFIR. ALLAH SEI DANK BIN ICH ATHEIST
(Kafir. Thank Allah I Am An Atheist)
Memoir
240 pages, paperback
Published in October 2020
Greek rights sold (Lemvos)
New title!
The true story of a young Kurd who was arrested and tortured at fifteen years of age, fled to Germany
and still fights for freedom of belief.
“If you want to change something, you mustn’t hide”, says Amed Sherwan.
He was born into a devout Muslim family in Iraqi Kurdistan. The impulsive, unfocused child feels different
from his peers since an early age. He seeks support in his religious belief – until he accidentally comes across
a text critical of Islam at the age of fourteen. What frightens him as blasphemy at first soon appears more
obvious to him than anything he has learned so far. Amed breaks away from Islam. But when he confides
in his father, this turns out to be a big mistake: his father reports his own son for blasphemy, Amed is arrested
and tortured. Because of his young age, the case gets major media attention in Iraq, Amed is publicly known
and in mortal danger. All he can do is to flee to Europe.
In his new home Germany, Amed fights for “Oriental Diversity” and the right to freedom of expression and
freedom of belief in Muslim communities. His provocative actions have earned him hostility from various
sides, but also great solidarity.
With humor and astonishing optimism, he tells the story of his childhood and youth – and of his life as a
“refugee face” in Germany.
Amed Sherwan, born in 1998, is the youngest per-son to be
arrested and tortured in Iraqi Kurdistan for blasphemy. He has
lived in Flensburg since 2014 and is now a blogger and activist.
Co-author Katrine Hoop is a criminologist, communications
consultant and cultural worker. She is bilingual and belongs to
the Danish-Frisian minority in Schleswig-Holstein.
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Jacinta Nandi
DIE SCHLECHTESTE HAUSFRAU DER WELT.
EIN ERFAHRUNGSBERICHT UND MANIFEST
(The Worst Housewife In The World. A Field Report And Manifesto)
208 pages, paperback
Published in September 2020
World rights available
“As a woman, you can never win with housework. If you don't do it, you're a slut. If you do it, you're
a stupid slut who lets herself be exploited.”
Everyone wants to talk about feminism, about cool topics that appeal to young women. About the gender
pay gap, for example, or pubic hair. But housework is definitely not a cool topic. Because nobody cares
about the oppression of the housewife.
But when feminist author Jacinta Nandi talks about housework, things suddenly get quite interesting. Nandi
reports on her personal experiences in a household with a teenager, a toddler and a mostly absent man
who refuses to help - after all, she, his partner, is a housewife and hence responsible for the kids, the cooking,
and the all the mess of family life! Nandi reflects on unpaid care work, poverty and dirt, she clicks exhaustedly
through lifestyle blogs by cleanfluencers, seeks advice in online housewife communities and survival help
in podcasts on cleaning techniques and miracle courses. Jacinta Nandi angrily writes against seemingly
invincible stupid old role models - and wonders how on earth she got there.
Jacinta Nandi was born in London in 1980 and has lived in Berlin since 2000.
She wrote the column “The good foreigner” for the tageszeitung, and she also
publishes regularly in feminist Missy Magazine and Jungle World. She was a
member of the Rakete 2000 and Die Surfpoeten reading platforms. So far, she
has published the books “Deutsch werden: Why German People Love Playing
Frisbee With Their Nana Naked”, “Fish & Chips und Spreewaldgurken” and
“Nichts gegen blasen” (2015).
THE WORST HOUSEWIFE IN THE WORLD
Jacinta Nandi is turning forty this year. And she has had enough!
Officially she has the perfect life – she’s a feminist, a freelance writer, an artist.
But her every-day life isn’t exactly going perfectly: in reality, she’s stuck at home all day long with her toddler,
who hasn’t started nursery yet, with her teenager, who seems to be collecting soft drink bottles and empty
chips packets in his room like it’s a hobby of his or something. And, worst of all, with a partner who thinks
it isn’t his job to help with the cleaning.
If my life was the blurb on the back of a book, it would sound like this.
“I am a scientist”, my boyfriend said to me one morning. “I won’t be helping out with the hoovering, let
me tell you that now.”
Okay. I decided I would do my best, on my own. I’d do everything and anything it took to become a good
housewife.
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NON-FICTION “You can do this!”, I told myself. I got myself physical help from paid cleaners from agencies and support and guidance from the many cleaning experts on YouTube. I tried to get my life in order. I tried to get the piles of washing under control. I was getting up earlier and earlier – and every day I’d put the washing machine on before making myself a cup of coffee. But the thing is: can you really be happy in a relationship with a man who doesn’t want to do any cleaning? Who thinks that the only thing more disgusting than a dirty kitchen is the thought that he could “help out” with the housework? I feel like the weird thing about our situation was the fact that my boyfriend admitted openly, that he had no intention of doing any housework whatsoever. In many Western households there’s this myth of equality. People are keen to pretend that husband and wives are doing this work equally. But if it sounds utopian, that’s probably because it is. Because studies prove that even working mothers do 160 minutes of housework a day – whilst their partners do just 90! And I also can’t help wondering what work these 90 minutes actually entail. How much bedtime story reading or car maintenance is included in that optimistic statistic? A study from the University College London, published in the journal Work, Employment and Study, proved that women do an average of 16 hours of housework a week – their male partners, on the other hand, just 6. And even couples who are both working full-time divide the housework up in this unequal manner. It’s five times more likely for a mother who works full-time to spend 20 hours of her week doing housework than it is for a man. And, perhaps most depressingly of all, in 2005 a study by the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research found out that men actually CAUSE 7 hours of extra housework for their female partners! Whereas women actually reduce men’s household tasks by one whole hour. So here I am, cleaning away. Thinking about housework and what it actually is. It’s work which isn’t seen as work. In fact, it’s work which isn’t seen at all. Men don’t watch you while you’re cleaning up – how could they? They’re too busy looking at the television screen! And it’s work which men absolutely refuse to do. It’s not important to men that women do all the housework. But it’s very important to them that they do nothing at all. Housework is work which oppresses women. Housework is physical labour. It’s physical labour. It takes up a lot of time. Housework is work which robs women of time, energy and sleep. It’s work which costs women bodies and lives so much – and yet is not seen as work. Because it is, of course, unpaid. That’s the weird thing about cleaning, isn’t it? As soon as you pay someone to do it, suddenly it becomes work. It’s considered a shit job, for sure, but a job, proper work, nonetheless. Cleaners get an hourly wage – which means that at some point, their work for the day is over, it ends, and they can go home. Cleaners are badly paid, but their work is, at some point, done for the day. Unpaid housewives are never finished with the housework. In this collection of short, humorous, and entertainingly angry stories I will describe my attempt to become a good housewife – how much it cost me, to try and do it all, (and all alone!) – and how and why I failed. Can you have a relationship with a man who refuses to do any cleaning? Is it even worthy of the word relationship? And why do men seem to think that they only need to clean if there’s no woman around to do it for them? What the fuck is wrong with them? Foreign Rights Catalogue 9 www.edition-nautilus.de
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Timo Daum
AGILER KAPITALISMUS. DAS LEBEN ALS PROJEKT
(Agility In Digital Capitalism. Life As A Project)
With an afterword by Phoebe Moore
Illustrations by Susann Massute
208 pages, paperback
Published in October 2020
World rights available
Agility is demanded by everyone in an increasingly project-oriented society under all circumstances.
The new spirit of capitalism goes hand in-key with technologies and practices of measuring the self.
The worker-entrepreneur or franchisee of digital-capitalistic business models becomes the role model.
UBI becomes the more or less social social system of digital capitalism.
Today, software is being developed with agile methods: short sprints, working prototypes, new roles
replace traditional project management methods. This also has effects far beyond the industry: life itself is
increasingly becoming a project. In the course of the “new spirit of capitalism” (Boltanski), self-optimization,
lifelong learning, entrepreneurial validation of one’s own workforce and biography, and indeed of the entire
self, are managed with agility.
It used to be different. At the time of the normal working day, linear work and life biographies, pre-recorded
linear sequence of school, education, professional life and pension, life spluttered like that. Today, on the
other hand, the old waterfall model, in which successively different phases of the project take place, buil-
ding on each other, not only in software development, has become obsolete. Setting milestones and be an
achiever, a performer – not only has the wording become part of the subjectivity of the Digital Generation –
we have become the product owner of our own life project, one sprint chasing the next.
Timo Daum is a professor for Media Studies and Digital Economy. He studied
Physics and worked in the IT-sector for a long time. He holds lectures and semi-
nars about digital capitalism, for example at the Re:publica 2017. Also published
at Edition Nautilus: “Das Kapital sind wir. Kritik der Digitalen Ökonomie” (2017)
and “Die künstliche Intelligenz des Kapitals” (2019, see below).
Phoebe Moore, Associate Professor in Political Economy
& Technology at the University of Leicester in the School
of Business, Management and Organization division. Re-
cent publications: The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work,
Technology and What Counts (Routledge, 2018).
“Timo Daum’s book offers a history and critique of agile methods, puts them in context both historically as
part of management’s history in both dominating the workforce and increasing its productive output. (…)
The book gives an inside view on how highly collaborative code production in the agile factory is taking
place, explores its predecessors from the division of labor through Taylorism and lean production, and
concludes that the agile revolution has led to a kind of digital Taylorism for the general intellect producing
mind-workers, in the global digitally connected sweatshop, what he calls the cogni-facture or cognifactory.
Cybernetic management reaching a new stage in making human capital available for capital in an
unprecedented way: Agile Capitalism.” Phoebe Moore
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FICTION
Christine Koschmieder
TRÜMMERFRAUEN. EIN HEIMATROMAN
(Truemmerfrauen. A “homeland novel”)
Novel
304 pages, hardcover
Published in February 2020
World rights available
The door between fiction and reality is wide open. At a tearing pace, affectionately and absurdly this
novel is cutting through German history and contemporary events like a literary buzz saw – without
ever losing its sense of humour.
To escape her community garden’s annual harvest festival, Lou and her octogenarian friend Ottilie are bo-
arding a 4-star-coach for a trip to Thuringia (and into German history). In the meantime, the karaoke ma-
chine is set up in the community’s club house and waitress Karola, being fed up with capitalism dictating
her story, is preparing to defend her native soil. And while wheelchair-bound Ottilie, having fallen off her
walnut-tree five months before, is devouring powdered sugar waffles in a Thuringian spa town, a plane
with Lou’s boozed son Anatol and two toy hippos aboard is taking off from Chicago airport. Anatol’s de-
sperate attempt to create the picture book family he has always longed for in the U.S. has failed – despite
the assistance of a costly fertility app. 48 hours later – showdown at the community garden’s harvest festival:
determined to re-enact the massacre of “Operation Harvest Festival” in 1943 Poland, Anatol has hogtied
Karola to the walnut-tree, heads of cabbage are being blown up and everyone is caught up as histories col-
lide.
Christine Koschmieder (* 1972), Leipzig based author, literary agent and transla-
tor. M.A. Theatre Science / Media- and Communication Sciences, Intercultural Com-
munication and European Studies. After working in Off-Theatre and as a fundraiser
she founded Partner + Propaganda literary agency in 2003, representing contem-
porary literary fiction from Germany, Post-Yugoslavia and U.S. independents. She
has been awarded several grants. Her debut novel Schweinesystem (PORKED, Auf-
bau Verlag 2014) was shortlisted for the aspekte-Literaturpreis and invited to the
2014 Jean-Seberg-Festival in Marshalltown, Iowa.
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Isabel Fargo Cole
DAS GIFT DER BIENE
(The Poison of the Honey Bee)
Novel
208 pages, hardcover
Published in September 2019
World rights available
Longer English synopsis and sample translation available
Selected for New Books in German
In the mid-1990s, the recent college graduate Christina, an aspiring writer from New York City, comes to
Berlin with a Fulbright scholarship to research the city’s utopian histories. At the Humboldt University in the
former East Berlin she meets the free-spirited Meta, who runs a “salon” in an otherwise abandoned back
building behind an old tenement. Young squatters had taken over the entire complex in the final years of
the German Democratic Republic; now the front building has been renovated, and the former squatters
have moved back in with socially subsidized leases. For Christina, the tightly-knit alternative community
revolving around Meta’s salon is virtually a socialist utopia. There she falls in love with Wolfgang, a former
border guard, and spontaneously moves in with him.
When a documentary film project takes Meta to Israel for six months, the utopia begins to deteriorate. With
Meta gone, the salon falls into disuse, and there are rumors that Meta’s back building is going to be sold.
Then a stranger moves in above the salon – the young, preternaturally gifted painter Vera Grünberg …
Isabel Fargo Cole, born in 1973 in Galena, Ill., USA, grew up in New York City and
graduated with honors from the University of Chicago in 1995 (AB General Studies
in the Humanities). Cole has been working in Berlin as a freelance writer and
translator since 1995, writing mainly in German since 2003, and has published
stories in various literary magazines. She has translated, among others, major
German literary works by Rainer Maria Rilke, Gustav Meyrink, Hermann Ungar,
Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Franz Fühmann, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Klaus Hoffer,
and Wolfgang Hilbig (longlisted for the 2015 Best Translated Book Award, a finalist
for the CLMP Firecracker Award in Fiction.) From 2006-2008 she co-edited the
lauter niemand magazine, and from 2006-2016 no man’s land, an annual online magazine for new German
literature in English. In 2013, she was a co-organizer of the initiative »Writers Against Mass Surveillance«
along with Ilija Trojanow, Juli Zeh, Priya Basil and others. Her novel “Die grüne Grenze” (“The Green
Frontier”, published in 2017) was shortlisted for Klaus-Michael-Kühne-Preis (first novel award) and for the
Leipzig Book Fair Award.
By the same author:
DIE GRÜNE GRENZE
(The Green Frontier)
496 pages, hardcover
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Isabel Fargo Cole
DIE GRÜNE GRENZE
(The Green Frontier: A Fantasy)
Novel
496 pages, hardcover
Published in August 2017
World rights available
Longer synopsis and translation sample in English available
Shortlisted for Klaus-Michael-Kühne-Preis (first novel award)
Shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Award 2018
1973, in a tiny village in the forests of the Harz Mountains, on the East German side of the Iron Curtain. In
this heavily restricted, surreal border zone, privileged Socialist Party members vacation in the shadow of
the “green frontier”. Following an unplanned pregnancy and a spontaneous wedding, Thomas and Editha
have moved here from East Berlin to start a new life in Editha's mysterious, re-claimed family property. For
the imperturbable Editha, it is the perfect place to pursue her work as a sculptor in peace and quiet. Thomas,
a would-be dissident writer, decides to write a trailblazing novel about a taboo subject: the German border.
After all, the GDR's new leader has proclaimed a cultural thaw. But Thomas finds himself drawn into deeper
layers of history. The wilderness of the Harz, once at the heart of the Holy Roman Empire, has always been
a contested border region between religious and political powers, Germanic and Slavic tribes, Christianity
and paganism. And it is this history that inspired the Nazi's genocidal plans to reshape Eastern Europe as a
“German landscape”. When the cultural thaw is abruptly reversed, Thomas continues to write without hope
of publication, spiraling deeper into his obsessions. Behind a harmonious façade, he and Editha drift apart,
while their lonely daughter Eli navigates the space between them. Thomas feeds Eli's overactive imagination
with tantalizing secrets – that her »real« mother is a woman who fled across the border long ago. Or that
Hercynia Silva, the primeval German forest, has survived unscathed in the nearby no man's land.
As Thomas delves into the depths of German history, his – and Editha's – own suppressed past begins to
surface, leading to a series of revelations that unbalance the sensitive Eli, now seven years old. Setting out
into the forest, she crosses the border that Thomas has never quite reached – between reality and what lies
beyond. In the ancient myth of a sylvan paradise, we confront the utopian yearnings of individuals and
societies, and their dark, dystopian potential.
Isabel Fargo Cole, born in 1973 in Galena, Ill., USA, grew up in New York City and
graduated with honors from the University of Chicago in 1995 (AB General Studies
in the Humanities). Cole has been working in Berlin as a freelance writer and
translator since 1995, writing mainly in German since 2003, and has published
stories in various literary magazines. She has translated, among others, major
German literary works by Rainer Maria Rilke, Gustav Meyrink, Hermann Ungar,
Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Franz Fühmann, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Klaus Hoffer,
and Wolfgang Hilbig (longlisted for the 2015 Best Translated Book Award, a finalist
for the CLMP Firecracker Award in Fiction.) From 2006-2008 she co-edited the
lauter niemand magazine, and from 2006-2016 no man’s land, an annual online magazine for new German
literature in English. In 2013, she was a co-organizer of the initiative “Writers Against Mass Surveillance”
along with Ilija Trojanow, Juli Zeh, Priya Basil and others. Her novel “Die grüne Grenze” (“The Green
Frontier”, published in 2017) was shortlisted for Klaus-Michael-Kühne-Preis (first novel award) and for the
Leipzig Book Fair Award.
Foreign Rights Catalogue 14 www.edition-nautilus.deSVEN RECKER
Sven Recker
FAKE METAL JACKET
Novel
128 pages, paperback
Published in March 2018
World rights available
English sample translation available
World theatre release: September 2018, Graz, Austria
What if our well-meaning political opinions were based on fake news? Peter Larsen's job is to feed us
the lies we want to believe, until he gets a taste of his own medicine.
Peter Larsen (39) is a famous next-generation war correspondent. One of those smart guys, who gets really
close, deep into the stories of refugees, war victims and catastrophes. He fearlessly interviews warlords and
sends live footage of bombings – always online and as close to the action as possible. Renowned editors
love his unfiltered reports and interviews. But it is all fake news. He produces his stories in Berlin. The “cast”
of his improvised mobile videos consists of refugees; his “new” is pieced together from internet content.
But business is going rather too well. Larsen has long since lost touch with reality. He has grown careless:
he drinks too much and makes silly mistakes. He is about to be unmasked when he is lured into a trap – by
a fake.
The attractive Syrian Leila, who he met online and with whom he has fallen in love, invites him to Beirut.
Immediately after his arrival, he is kidnapped and taken hostage to Damascus, where he is forced to use his
propagandistic talent to support Assad's regime. Leila turns out to be a member of the secret service.
In the martial reality of the Syrian civil war he must painfully realize that not only his career, but his whole
life is ruined. And so he makes the surprising and life-threatening decision to fight for his survival – as a
journalist and as a human being.
Sven Recker
KRUME KNOCK OUT
Novel. 112 pages, hardcover, € (D) 16,00
First published in August 2015
.
World rights available
If you want to get to paradise, you have to get past life first. “Krume Knock Out”
shows nine characters’ teetering steps, each of them on the edge of his private
abyss, looking for a passable way between his own dreams and the slogans of an
achievement-oriented society: “Imagine you are an elephant and want to fly.”
Sven Recker was born in 1973 in Bühl/Baden (Germany) and lives in Berlin. He trai-
ned as a journalist and worked as a reporter before becoming a relief worker in crisis
regions in Africa and Asia in 2002. Since 2009, he trains local journalists and helps
to establish independent newspapers in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Sudan, Sri Lanka and
Rwanda. His debut novel “Krume Knock Out” was selected for the Festival of Ger-
man Language Literature in Klagenfurt in 2015.
Foreign Rights Catalogue 15 www.edition-nautilus.deJOCHEN SCHIMMANG
Jochen Schimmang
ALTES ZOLLHAUS, STAATSGRENZE WEST
(Old Customs House, Western Border)
Novel. 192 pages, hardcover
Published in March 2017
World rights available
Jochen Schimmang tells stories about life at disappearing borders, a quarter of a
century after the end of the Bonn Republic. Gregor Korff, the protagonist of the
much acclaimed novel “Das Beste, was wir hatten” moves to the countryside in
search of solitude.
Jochen Schimmang
NEUE MITTE
(The New Centre)
Novel. 256 pages, hardcover
Published in August 2011
Russian language rights sold (Ivan Limbakh)
Jochen Schimmang creates a future Germany in the finest post-modern manner,
celebrating the pure pleasure of the text. But the novel also is a suspense-filled
political thriller with ironic distance towards its own genre. And in passing it tries
to answer the question of how to live together.
Jochen Schimmang
DAS BESTE, WAS WIR HATTEN
(The Best We Had)
Novel. 320 pages, hardcover
Published in June 2009
World rights available
It was not only the German Democratic Republic that collapsed after the Berlin
wall was torn down, but also the old Federal Republic of Germany. In his novel
“Das Beste, was wir hatten” Jochen Schimmang portrays the life of Gregor Korff
and Leo Münks, two young men who are studying in West Berlin and happen to
get involved with the Leftists in the 1970's, and then become a minister consultant
in the (former) German capital Bonn and a federal homeland-security agent in Co-
logne respectively. Both rationally understand what is happening in 1989, but they
have trouble realizing that their old “republic” (BRD) won't be the same after all
the historical changes.
Jochen Schimmang, born 1948 in Northeim, grew up in Leer, Northern West-Ger-
many. He studied political sciences and philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin
from 1969 until 1974. Afterwards he worked as a professor at different universities
in Germany and in adult education. Since 1993 he lives in Oldenburg and works as
an author and translator.
Also published by Edition Nautilus: “Adorno wohnt hier nicht mehr”, “Der schöne
Vogel Phönix” and “Grenzen, Ränder, Niemandsländer”.
Foreign Rights Catalogue 16 www.edition-nautilus.deCRIME FICTION
Matthias Wittekindt
DIE BRÜDER FOURNIER
The Fournier Brothers
Crime novel
256 pages, paperback
Published in March 2020
World rights available
New title!
How does someone turn into a “trouble child”? How do we cope with what is done to us?
Envie, a suburb of Brussels, in the 1970s. In a time that may seem, in retrospect, a childhood of freedom
and adventure, the brothers Iason and Vincent Fournier grow up together rather neglected by their parents
who are very busy building up their chocolate factory. The roam the forest and fields, and the boys’ youthful
energy is not always channeled, their perception of the world does not always correspond to the adults’.
Iason in particular constantly provokes people, in spite of the medication he is taking more or less regularly.
Still, they have a lot of friends, girls and boys alike, a gang of young people looked upon with a suspicious
eye.
But when two of the teenagers die within a year, drunk and drugged, Iason is suspected of having something
to do with their death - a suspicion he cannot shake off, even though there is no evidence. But he does act
strangely, and nobody, really nobody, links this wild boy to the fashionable and beautiful forty-odd lady
from Brussels who throws parties for art lovers and intellectuals in her modern bungalow …
Matthias Wittekindt, born 1958 in Bonn, studied architecture and religious
philosophy. He worked as an architect in Berlin and London, then became a stage
director. Since 2000 Wittekindt has written various radio dramas, TV- documentaries
and theatre plays, many of them award-winning, e.g. the Culture Award of Munich.
His novel “Marmormänner” won the 3rd prize at Deutscher Krimipreis Award in
2014, “Die Tankstelle von Courcelles” won the 2nd prize in 2018.
Foreign Rights Catalogue 17 www.edition-nautilus.deMATTHIAS WITTEKINDT
– crime@Nautilus –
Matthias Wittekindt
DIE TANKSTELLE VON COURCELLES (The Gas Station in Courcelles)
Crime Novel. 256 pages, paperback, € (D) 16,90. First published in March 2018
World rights available
This is more that just a crime novel. Not only does it portray a violent crime, but also
sheds a new light on an entire life, all the way back to childhood.
2nd at German Crime Novel Prize 2019
Matthias Wittekindt
DER UNFALL IN DER RUE BISSON (The Accident in Rue Bisson)
Crime Novel. 240 pages, paperback, first published in July 2016
World rights available, Film rights under option
A drunk driver, rain, an old street with sodden lane grooves. There has been a death on
the road in Rue Bisson – but was it really an accident? Why was Michel Descombes dri-
ving so fast as if he was on the run? Lieutenant Ohayon begins his investigation within
the driver's circle of friends. These people are the elite in budding Fleurville: They meet
regularly to work out and drink at the Lacombe, the most exclusive club in town.
Matthias Wittekindt
EIN LICHT IM ZIMMER (A Light in the Room)
Crime Novel. 320 pages, paperback, first published in October 2014
World rights available, Film rights under option
Bauge, a small French seaport in Brittany, in November. A huge offshore hydro power
plant is under construction, the workers come from China and are virtually barracked
just outside the town. When body parts wash up at the sea shore and a woman is atta-
cked in the park, the strangers are immediately branded as suspects.
Matthias Wittekindt
MARMORMÄNNER (Marble Men)
Crime Novel. 288 pages, paperback, € (D) 16,90. First published in February 2013
World rights available, Film rights under option
In an urban legend, »Marble Men« is the name given to four men that disappeared from
the small town of Fleurville in 1970. Only one of them was ever found – murdered. But
now buried remains of clothing are discovered on a construction site, and soon every-
body in Fleurville is curious to learn more about the case, which makes forensic scientist
Marie Grenier's work difficult.
Matthias Wittekindt
SCHNEESCHWESTERN (Snow Sisters)
Crime Novel. 352 pages, paperback, first published in August 2010
World rights available, Film rights under option
In the forest of Fleurville at the French-German border. Sixteen-year-old Geneviève is
found dead after going to the forest with three drunk boys one night, one of them known
to be violent. Next morning, the local newspaper receives an anonymous call, pointing
towards a sexual offender from Germany. Who could have known about the murder this
early? What are the intentions of the mysterious »King«? And what part does Kristina
play, Geneviève's best friend?
Foreign Rights Catalogue 18 www.edition-nautilus.deCRIME FICTION
Selim Özdogan
DER DIE TRÄUME HÖRT
(Keeping All These Dreams)
Crime novel
288 pages, paperback
Published in September 2019
Italian rights sold (Emons)
English sample translation available
New title!
Nizar Benali has made it. He has left Westmarkt, the ghetto of his native town in the Ruhr area, where he
grew up among other »blackheads«, where drug dealing and racketeering flourish. He earns his life, not
badly, as a private investigator for victims of minor cybercrimes. When a wealthy father asks him to find the
darknet dealer “toni_meow”, who has sold Mephedrone to his teenage son who died after taking it, it looks
to Nizar like a well-paid but hopeless job. But then an old lover presents him her seventeen-year-old son
Lesane – their son. Lesane roams the streets of Westmarkt, he deals and owes a lot of money to his supplier,
a rather dangerous man. Nizar realizes that finding “toni_meow” is the only way to save Lesane.
“Der die Träume hört” is a gripping and sharp novel about what is gained and what is lost in social rising.
About the dreary glamor of the streets. About drug trafficking 2.0, which remains a dirty business even on
supposedly clean internet platform – and about lost sons who we want to have it better than we did.
Selim Özdogan, born in 1971 in Cologne, has studied Ethnology, Philosophy
and English but dropped out of university. He had a lot of different jobs before
becoming a full-time writer in 1995. He published more than 15 novels and
short story books, last in 2016 “Wieso Heimat, ich wohne zur Miete” and 2017
“Wo noch Licht brennt”. “Der die Träume hört” is his first crime novel and his first
book at Edition Nautilus. His novel “Die Tochter des Schmieds” (“The Blacksmith‘s
Daughter”) will be published in English in 2021 (Voland & Quist, UK).
Foreign Rights Catalogue 19 www.edition-nautilus.deCRIME FICTION
Leonhard F. Seidl
FRONTEN
(Frontlines)
Crime Novel
160 pages, paperback
Published in August 2017
World rights available
French sample translation available
A Bosnian weapon collector runs amok in a Bavarian village. A Reichsbürger seeks revenge. And a
female Muslim doctor gets between the frontlines – a crime thriller based on a true story.
Markus draws up the syringe. Folds back the blanket. Grandfather's skinny feet. The blue veins. Where the
knowledge runs, knowledge that he passed on to his grandson: Mühlhiasl the soothsayer, chemtrails, Illuminati,
Belladonna, the Jew and the Musulman. Grandfather, who taught him that man comes right after beast. And
that we root on what our fathers created with their fists, their brains and hearts. He swallows hard. Still, tears
well up in his eyes. He pulls the blanket up over Grandfather again. The captain is the last to leave the ship. A
matter of honor.
The Kurdish doctor Roja Özen is very well assimilated in Auffing, a small town in Bavaria. But then the Bos-
nian Ayyub Zlatar, who had to flee from Srebrenica when he was a little child, kills three officers at the police
station, but lets Roja, who happens to be there, live. Everybody believes that this was an attack by ISIS, and
Roja is suspected to be an accomplice, threatened with losing her patients, husband, friends. Markus Keil-
hofer, raised by his grandparents, fanatic “Reichsbürgers”, wants the Muslims to pay for the massacre. As
he storms into a mosque, heavily armed, Roja blocks his way…
Seidl skillfully intertwines the lives of the three protagonists, ending in a dramatic showdown. A highly
relevant and up-to-date thriller about racism and fanatism in a society full of anxiety, and about the courage
it takes to stand up against it.
“Fronten” is inspired by a true case from 1988, when a man from Yugoslavia shot three policemen in the
Bavarian town of Dorfen, that led to a wave of xenophobic reactions.
“‘Fronten’ is the novel for the current political situation – littérature engagée, by no means futile. It is more
necessary than ever, and Leonhard F. Seidl is its protagonist.”
Thomas Wörtche
Leonhard F. Seidl, born 1976 in Munich, is a writer and social worker. He was awar-
ded numerous prizes, amongst others, for his work with teenage delinquents. Seidl
earned several scholarships for Fronten, for example from the Romanwerkstatt Lite-
raturforum im Brecht-Haus and from the Bayerische Akademie des Schreibens in
Munich. Also published: “Mutterkorn” (Kulturmaschinen, 2011), “Genagelt”
(Emons, 2014), “Viecher” (Emons, 2015) and “Der falsche Schah” (Volk Verlag,
2020)
Foreign Rights Catalogue 20 www.edition-nautilus.deROBERT BRACK
– crime@Nautilus –
Robert Brack
DIE DREI LEBEN DES FENG YUN FAT (The Three Lives of Feng Yun Fat)
Crime Novel. 192 pages, softcover, first published in February 2015
World rights available
Feng Yun Fat, owner of the Chinese Restaurant »Hong Kong Dragon« in Hamburg, calls
to the detective agency Rabe & Adler for help. Wang Shuo, his best-ever chef (specialty:
Dim Sum), is missing without a trace. He disappeared just as Yun Fat was about to make
him the manager of his new gourmet restaurant, offering him cuisine stardom.
Lenina Rabe and her partner, Nadine Adler, who fire off Confucian sayings as quickly as
they deal Martial Arts blows, take the job. But when they contact other Chinese chefs,
they inexplicably refuse to help them to find Wang Shuo.
Robert Brack
BLUTSONNTAG (Bloody Sunday)
Crime novel. 224 pages, softcover, first published in June 2010
World rights available
During the so-called Bloody Sunday of Altona on July 17th 1932, a NS-Stormtroopers'
demonstration through the traditionally communist city of Altona turns into violent rio-
ting. In the end, 18 people die. Klara Schindler, reporter and militant communist, sniffs
out the cover-up in the police, assisted by a failed cabaret artist, a streetwalker and a re-
spectable gangster. And Klara decides to take revenge...
The description of July 17th 1932, is based on historical facts; Klara and her friends are
the fruit of the author's imagination.
Robert Brack
UNTER DEM SCHATTEN DES TODES (Under the Shadow of Death)
Crime novel. 224 pages, softcover, first published in February 2012
World rights available
February 1933 – Klara Schindler, hiding from the Hamburg police after her assassination
attempt of a Nazi police officer, is in Copenhagen when the news about the burning
Reichstag spread around the world. Under the Shadow of Death is the first work of fiction
to ever deal with the historical Reichstag fire. It is a gripping thriller with elements of a
spy novel. It is full of the color and flavor of the thirties: social misery, political struggles
as well as the decadent night life, and it features some very original characters.
Robert Brack
UND DAS MEER GAB SEINE TOTEN WIEDER
(The Sea Gave Up the Dead that Were in It)
Crime novel. 224 pages, softcover, first published in June 2008
World rights available
At the beginning of the 1930's, Jennifer Stevenson, from the International Association of
Police Women, was sent to Hamburg, Germany, to solve a scandalous case. Two female
police officers are supposed to have committed suicide, but there are rumors circulating
connecting murder and political affairs. Jennifer gets deeper and deeper into the inves-
tigation until she finds herself in deadly peril. The novel is based on a true story. Robert
Brack carried out extensive of research for more than five years to bring this unsolved
historical case to light.
Foreign Rights Catalogue 21 www.edition-nautilus.deFICTION Marie Malcovati NACH ALLEM, WAS ICH BEINAHE FÜR DICH GETAN HÄTTE (After All I'd Almost Done for You) Novel, 128 pages, hardcover, first published in February 2016 World rights available A panoramic portrait of contemporary society: Two people are sitting on a bench, observed by a third. How can a surveillance camera ever capture people’s intentions? Who observes whom? Can one prevent anything that is bound to happen? Layer by layer Marie Malcovati lays bare her characters, and one by one every guess the reader makes about them is shown to be wrong. A most intelligent, suspenseful and comical novel! French sample translation available Marina Achenbach EIN KROKODIL FÜR ZAGREB (A Crocodile for Zagreb) Novel, 192 pages, hardcover, first published in August 2017 World rights available A real story of a real family, presented in 120 colorful scenes, like a mosaic of the 20th century: From the author's Muslim-Catholic grandparents in Bosnia in the 1910s to her parents, a young journalist in Sarajevo in 1937 who falls in love with a German refugee, an actor and theatre director, to war-shaken Berlin and peaceful Ahrenshoop. Then from promising post-war Weimar, Rostock, and East Berlin to West Berlin and Munich – and to Yugoslavia again. Longer English Synopsis and French translation sample available Frank Witzel BLUE MOON BABY Novel, 320 pages, paperback,first published in 2001, new edition in 2015 World rights available The first novel by Frank Witzel, winner of the Deutscher Buchpreis, follows a set of very different characters during one long weekend: Hugo Rhäs, a high school teacher, Sabine Rikke, a university professor for gender studies, the oddly aging former pop singers Tamara Tajenka and Bodo Silber, Grateful Dead fan Abbie Koff- lager, Rubinblad, a psychiatrist, and others in Germany, the USA and Kenia. Do they meet by chance or are they part of a CIA conspiracy? Frank Witzel REVOLUTION UND HEIMARBEIT (Revolution and Telework) Novel. 256 pages, hardcover, € (D) 19,90. First published in 2003 World rights available A young man seeking revenge on his girlfriend, an unusual service provider specialized in relics from space travel, a family with two sick children in danger of being kidnapped, an undercover urban guerrillero working in advertising – this is a story about payoffs, delusions and disappointments. Flavio Steimann BAJASS (Buffoon) Novel, 128 pages, hardcover, first published in August 2014 French language world rights sold (Agone), all other rights available With his story about a nameless youth, driven from his home and half around the world by hunger and shame, Flavio Steimann casts a light on the dark side of Swiss history: poverty, backwardness, and con- tract children – children hired out for work. Foreign Rights Catalogue 22 www.edition-nautilus.de
FICTION Hans Platzgumer KORRIDORWELT (Corridor World) Novel, 244 pages, hardcover, first published in February 2014 World rights available “Corridor World” is part road movie, part rock novel and part coming-of-age story. It paints the portrait of a young man whose youth in »old Europe« comes to an explosive end and who rides the shock-waves to the other side of the world, where he makes the decision not to give up. Corinna T. Sievers MARIA ROSENBLATT Novel, 144 pages, hardcover, first published in August 2013 World rights available Maria Rosenblatt is in her mid-forties and lonely. She lusts for life. From now on, any man that she encounters could be the right one for an adventure. She starts a passionate affair with her superior, the State Attourney. She puts her investigation into a case of child pornography in danger. She neglects her children. And she is happy, for the first time in her life. Corinna T. Sievers SCHÖN IST DAS LEBEN UND GOTTES HERRLICHKEIT IN SEINER SCHÖPFUNG (All Life is Beautiful and God's Majesty in Creation) Novel, 96 pages, hardcover, first published in August 2012 World rights available Ute's story is a true one but it ends in tragedy in 1981 with her suicide, aged fifteen. It is a distressing, en- raging book, but also offers a little glimmer of hope. P. M. MANETTI LESEN ODER VOM GUTEN LEBEN (Reading Manetti or On Good Life) Novel, 288 pages, hardcover, first published in August 2012 World rights available The whole world is reading Manetti! But what on earth makes the posthumously published notebooks by this ancient student revolutionist-turned-businessman so irresistible? Why do Manetti’s readers disappear? Paul Meier, the narrator, goes on a quest to find and the secret behind the missing notebooks. Guido R. Schmidt WOHER DER WIND WEHT. EIN PATAGONIENROMAN (Where the Wind Blows) Novel, 384 pages, hardcover, first published in August 2010 World rights available A young man named Veit travels to Patagonia in quest of his grandfather Emil Sailer who disappeared there in the 1920s. His grandfather had emigrated to Argentina in 1919, hoping for a better life. He became in- volved in a violent strike movement on the large farms that was heavily defeated. His grandson’s venture- some tour takes him on a journey to a land of beauty and tragic history. Foreign Rights Catalogue 23 www.edition-nautilus.de
NON-FICTION
Stephanie Haerdle
SPRITZEN. GESCHICHTE DER WEIBLICHEN EJAKULATION
(Squirting. A History of Female Ejaculation)
Nautilus Flugschriften
288 pages, softcover
Published in January 2020
English world rights sold (MIT Press)
French world rights sold (Lux Editeur)
Do women squirt when they come? Yes, they do, there is lots of evidence!
But female ejaculation is still controversial, even today. For some it is a myth, for the other everyday sexual
life, and it seems to depend very much on your political position whether you are willing to believe or not.
What do we as a society really know about this aspect of female lust, what is common anatomic knowledge
and why are so many details still unknown?
The search for traces and evidence of ejaculation of women leads well into pre-Christian times and around
the globe. And the finds are surprising: For thousands of years, ejaculation was a natural part of sexual
experience for both men and women. Only in Europe, in the 19th century, female ejaculation was being
ridiculed, fought, ousted, tabooed, and finally largely forgotten – until it was rediscovered in the 20th century.
“Spritzen” is a well-read and entertaining display of how female ejaculation was understood and judged,
how certain concepts of female sexuality and female body made the perception of female ejaculation
possible, or impossible, or exploited in mainstream porn business, when female squirting cumshots were
discovered as a source of income rather than pleasure.
Recently, a lot of new publications on vulva, vagina or menstruation appear, showing a renewed interest in
the female body. A current and well-founded inventory of female ejaculation is not among them.
Stephanie Haerdle closes this gap. Her book aims to entertain, surprise, provide arguments and inform. It
explains the »hardware« that makes female ejaculation possible (clitoral complex and female prostate), it
explores anatomy, gynecology and urology.
Stephanie Haerdle studied Modern German Literature, Cultural Studies and
Gender Studies (M.A.) in Berlin, where she also lives. She has published a book on
Female circus artists (AvivA Verlag, 2007).
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